The Pennsylvania National Guard broke ground Friday
morning on its $32 million Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site
at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center in Union Township.
The 85,513-square-foot facility will include 55,040
square feet of maintenance high bays and almost 20,000 square feet of classroom
and general education space. It will be built on a 14-acre parcel of the Muir
Army Airfield at the base and is the largest military construction project in
Pennsylvania Army National Guard history.
Col. Todd Levendoski, the Eastern Army National Guard
Aviation Training Site commander, said the new building, the sixth since the
division was created at Fort Indiantown Gap in 1981, is necessary to
accommodate larger equipment and larger class sizes.
The build is expected to take 18 months and will employ
about 140 workers during the construction.
“So it’s going to have a big economic impact on the
area,” said Adjutant General of Pennsylvania Maj. Gen. Wesley Craig.
The Pennsylvania National Guard awarded the general
construction contract to Senate Builders and Construction of Norristown. The
company has worked on a number of other construction projects at the base,
including the automated sniper field fire ranger, the modified record firing
range and the unarmed aerial vehicle training facility.
Source: Central
Penn Business Journal
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